Cabinet



March 31,1931.

A. P. GEIMER lCABINET Filed Dec. 3, 1927 Patented Mar. 31, 1931 UNITED STATES g PATENT oFFi'cE ANTHONY P. (rl'ilIJllIlIt,` OF TWO RIVERS,.. WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR T0 HAMILTONMANUJ" FACTURING- CO., OF TWO RIVERS, WISCONSIN,` Al CORPORATION 0F WISCONSIN CABINET Application led December 3, 1927. Serial No. 237,486.

ments in conjunction with runways whereby the drawers are held from vertical displacement from the runways within the normal travel of the drawers.

My invention is of particular use in connection with cabinets having runways adapted to support printers galleys, the galleys being considered as one form of drawer with which the cabinet is supplied.

In accordance with my invention, metallic strips are placed substantially. parallel to and above the runways, these strips being pressed laterally and inwardly into inwardly projecting formations which overhang the runways and lateral portions of the drawers which enter between the runways and said inwardly projecting formations. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the runways are also of strip material and are integrally formed with the aforesaid strip meinbers, each runway and the corresponding strip above it being preferably a length of angle iron. Said strip members and the formations at the tops thereof which overlie the runways proper constitute guards that confine the drawers to their lines of travel and prevent them from tilting. In the case of galleys, the printing faces of the type or forms held by the galleys are thus protected from injurious contact with the galleys above. The upper portions of these guards desirably terminate short of the runways and preferably also of the outer sides of the guards at each drawer receiving face of the cabinet to permit the entering end of the drawer to be readily rested upon the receiving ends of the runways.

The invention will be inore fully explained in connection with the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a front view of the cabinet as it may be constructed in accordance withmy invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 2-2 of Fig. l; F ig. 3 is a sectional view on line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a sectional view, on a larger scale, online fl-l of Y Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a perspective view illustrating a portion of one runway and its assov ciate guard together with the contiguous side of thecabinet, a portion of the rear end of the drawer being shown in place upon the runway; and Fig. 6 is a view similar to a part" of Fig. 3 with the entering end of a drawer resting upon the receiving ends of the run 1 ways preparatory to Lthe fullinsertion of the drawer.

The cabinet l illustrated may, desired;

be formed of wood. The drawers 2 that are illustrated withinthe cabinet are in the nature of galleys, though the invention is not to be'thus restricted. Each galley shownhas a floor 3 of sheet metalwhich is folded upon itself lengthwise of the galleyto constitute lateral `projections 4. The metal of which the parts 3 and4 are madeis then continued upwardly to form the galley 'sides 5, the metal being finally downwardly continued as i1idifcated at 6 to strengthen the structure. The

form of strip metal portions and are shaped to constitute guards tohold thedrawers in their lines of travel.` y y t The two formations 9 and 10 are preferably made of angle iron, the runways 9 being horizontal and the Jstrips 10 rising from the runways at the outer longitudinal edges of the runways where the parte 9 and l0 are in integral connection. The upper portions `of the strip memberslO are depressed and pressed laterally and inwardly intol elongated upright Ushaped inwardly projecting guard formations whose base portions 11 extend lengthwise of the runways 9 and are substantially parallel therewith, the side portions 12 of the U-shaped formations ter1ni nating short of the runways and of the upright and outer side portions of the'guards. Each runway, the upright sideof the contiguous guard, and the elongate top portion 11 of suchfguard, are collectively of U-shape in cross section and constitute a channel way Y drawer to be readily rested on the drawer re-VV that receives the contiguous lateral projection A of the drawer, the narrower side 11 of such channel way overlying such projetcion and the broader side 9 of such channel way extending inwardly beyond the channel side 11 and inwardly beyond the contiguous drawer projection L whereby the drawer has broad support and is properly coniined to its line of travel during the major vportions of its movements. It the drawers happen to be galleys, the printing faces oi" the galley contents are prevented from being injured by the galleys or cabinet portions above.

By terminating the U-shaped formations said elements having an upper portion overlying and vertically spaced from its related runway and which terminates short of the ends of its related guard element and runway which are located at the drawer receiving face of the cabinet to permit the entering end of the drawer to be readily rested on the drawer receiving ends of the runways.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my naine.

ANTHONY P. GEIMER.

11, 12 short of the runways, the entering ends of the drawers may be freely lowered upon the receiving ends of the runways without interference from the guards and to positions in which the drawers may be readily slid into place. By also terminating the overhanging portions 11,12 of the guards short of the upright sides of the guards, ample room is afforded for the fastening screwsor means 13 which are disposed at the outer ends of the side portions of the guards.

I-Iaving thus describedmy invention, I claim: e

l. A cabinet having a removable drawer provided with a lateral continuation on each side, two runways mounted one on each side wall of the cabinet and on which the lateral continuations of the drawer respectively ride, a guard element carried by the cabinet along each runway, each of said elements Y having an upper portion overlying and vertically spaced from its related runway which latter projects laterally andi inwardly beyond the overlying portion of its related guard element, and said upper overlying portion terminating short of the ends of its related guard element and runway whichare located at the drawer receiving face of the cabinet to permit the entering end of the drawer to be readily rested on the drawerreceiving ends of the runways. e

2. A cabinet having a removable drawer provided with a lateral continuation on each Y side, two runways mounted one on each side wall of the cabinet and on which the lateral continuations of the drawer respectively ride, a guard element carried by the cabinet along each runway, each of said element-s having an upper portion overlying and vertically spaced from its related runway and which terminates short of the ends of its rey lated guard element and runway which are located at the drawer receiving :tace of the cabinet to permit the entering end ot the ceiving ends of the runways. j

8. A cabinet having a removableY drawer, two runways mounted one von each side wall Yof the cabinet and by which the drawer is slidably supported, a guard element carried by the cabinet along each runway, each of 

